Neopositivist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Neopositivist is an adjective meaning Of or relating to neopositivism.
Meaning
Of or relating to neopositivism.
More Meanings
- An adherent of neopositivism.
Example Sentences
Written by accretion rather than from a single author's interpretation Wikipedia has a neo-positivist mania for facts that devalues interpretation in depth, yet in matching Friedrich's review against Nabokov it also shows that it is far from neutral.
The neo-positivist stance is by far the dominant discourse of our age. Roughly put, it sees the world as an orderly cosmos. It believes that humans can navigate, deal with and master it to their advantage, and that knowledge (particularly scientific knowledge) can curb the anxiety and uncertainty of living-and-dying.
Word Forms
- neo-positivist
- neopositivists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include positivistic, postpositivistic, positivist, neopatrimonial, neognostic, neontological.
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